News

05/20 Packages for Ubuntu hardy heron and gutsy gibbon available
We are proud to announce that the Beta version of Offline wikipedia is now available for Ubuntu and soon for other distributions.
We are looking for people that are able to package applications for Fedora, Mandriva, Open Suse and others ... For more information please email us at offlinewikipediaproject_[At-No_SpAm]gmail_[dot SpAm] com .

Contents

This project aims to provide a very effective way to get an offline version of wikipedia. This is very useful for people that don't have access to wikipedia.
All page titles are indexed using xapian indexor. For instance, with english wikipedia (based on march's dump), about 2 millons page titles are indexed, it takes less than 0.1 sec to make a search.

These preliminary results are based on non-optimized version (beta version), we hope to improve the rendering process later.

Note:(1) We measure the time to make a search within indexed page titles (using xapian engine).(2) We measure the time to extract the page content.(3) We measure the time to transform wikimarkup to HTML.

It works on legacy hardware and low cost laptop (Asus EEE PC), but for good performance, we recommand a 2 years old computer.

Installation

This operation is divided into 2 steps. First you download and install Offline-Wikipedia Server and then you install Offline-Wikipedia Content. Unfortunately, for the moment, we can't provide the content, because we are looking for an online file storage service to host modified wikipedia dumps. For the moment, if you really want to install offline-wikipedia, you have to install owi-server package and then build by yourself the content.